History DumbMuscle / Videogames

* From the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series.
** Big the Cat, though he's more simple minded than outright stupid.

** Knuckles isn't always the sharpest tool in the shed and almost always finds some way to get tricked by Eggman into fighting the Heroes. This has only gotten worse in recent years due to {{Flanderization}}.
*** Spin off series, ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'' just takes this and runs with it. Knuckles is far more of a {{CloudCuckooLander}} than ever, who sometimes spouts nonsensical things. His profile even notes that his first answer to everything is to punch it.

* Gaira Kafuin in ''SamuraiShodown'' is a parody of the MartialPacifist mold, being a Buddhist monk who is actually a violent knucklehead.

* From the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series.

*** Spin off series, SonicBoom just takes this and runs with it. Knuckles is far more of a {{CloudCuckooLander}} than ever, who sometimes spouts nonsensical things. His profile even notes that his first answer to everything is to punch it.

* Akihiko Sanada from ''{{VideoGame/Persona 3}}'' most certainly ''wasn't'' this in his original game. It's made clear that he's a very good student on top of being insightful, keen, and good at planning during fights; in fact, he's the first one to connect the dots in regards to why [[BossBattle those large Shadows]] appear during [[{{Lunacy}} full moons.]] His only shortcomings, mentally, are his sorely lacking social graces. Once {{Flanderization}} kicked in during ''Persona4Arena'' and ''[[VideoGame/Persona Q]]'', his more bookish intelligence is thrown out the window, his tactlessness is ramped up, and he becomes far more aggressive than even his worst moments in ''3'', as demonstrated by his battle quotes in ''Arena'' and his constant whining and arguing with his friend Shinjiro in ''Q''. Throw an obsessiveness with protein that wasn't in the original game and you've got one dumb, tactless boxer.

* Arche, the main character from ''FortuneSummoners'' literally gets called "Dumb Muscle" at one point. Might have to do with the fact that she's a [[LittleMissBadass little girl]], but even compared to her classmates she has a hard time with math or understanding some words (butler/butter, for instance).

* Flay in ManaKhemia falls pretty blatantly into this category, most of the time.

* Chang Koehan from the ''KingOfFighters'' series is a colossal numbskull with unbelievable physical prowess.

* Played with by Dr. Mundo from ''LeagueOfLegends''. On the one hand, he's a genius chemist capable of enhancing his own body to many times its physical limit and granting himself a massive HealingFactor. On the other hand, he forgets his own name if he doesn't constantly [[HulkSpeak say it to himself]]. Apparently those body enhancements had side effects.

* Buldogue from ''Capoeira Fighter'' has one of the highest strength stats in the game but she also has had no schooling of any kind. In Ramba's arcade mode you can show her how to apply her strength better in matches and force her to get an education.

* Subverted by the {{Neverwinter Nights}} mod ''A Tale of Ajandel'' where part of the loot from a minotaur in a mazelike cave was a diary which briefly mentioned building the maze so that it could have a private place in which to write the "great minotaur novel" and mourn its late wife.
* Tiny the Tiger in the ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'' series. In his debut, ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'', he's a large, roaring pile of muscle, and his appearance in [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped the third game]] shows his talking for the first time in HulkSpeak, but ''CrashOfTheTitans'', like with everyone else, decided to modify his character, making him still muscular but without the "Dumb" part.

* [[CityOfHeroes City of Heroes/Villains]]. Wretch. Oh, Wretch.

* The Soldier, on the other hand, spent years fighting World War II ''after'' the war had actually ended, [[CaptainObvious repeats everything the announcer says]], and has trouble remembering the password of '1111'. He gets Sun Tzu confused with Noah, once stating that Noah used his fight money to buy a boat, and brought two of every animal aboard said boat to beat the crap out of every single one.
** He also collects the heads of his enemies, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} has tea parties with cardboard cut-outs]], and wore a costume made of household rubbish, thinking he had fooled an army of robots into believing he was one himself (though to be fair, it did work until their newest creation singled him out). Safe to say, he's none too bright.

* The Heavy Weapons Guy from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is a subversion; although speaking simple English, he's [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue a lot more eloquent in Russian]] and even has a [=PhD=] in Russian literature (if you take his appearance in ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'' as canon). He also lampshades this by saying people can outsmart him, but they can't outsmart bullet. The Soldier, on the other hand, spent years fighting World War II ''after'' the war had actually ended, [[CaptainObvious repeats everything the announcer says]], and has trouble remembering the password of '1111'. And he gets Sun Tzu confused with Noah.
** He also collects the heads of his enemies, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} has tea parties with cardboard cut-outs, and wore a costume made of household rubbish, thinking he had fooled the police into believing he was a robot.]] Safe to say, he's none too bright.

* Berserker from FateStayNight, along with all other Berserkers in the Nasuverse, where becoming stronger at the price of getting dumber is an explicit ability of members of the class.

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Bowser}} from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is frequently portrayed this way, especially in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. In particular, ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' gives him a BrainsEvilBrawnGood dynamic with Fawful, where the latter sets up a GambitRoulette and utilizes various gadgets and robots while Bowser simply punches his way through the Mushroom Kingdom to get his castle back. Averted in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', where Bowser displays a surprising amount of competence from the get-go. Additionally, this is generally averted in the main series.

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Bowser}} of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is frequently portrayed this way, especially in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. In particular, ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' gives him a BrainsEvilBrawnGood dynamic with Fawful, where the latter sets up a GambitRoulette and utilizes various gadgets and robots while Bowser simply punches his way through the Mushroom Kingdom to get his castle back. Averted in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', where Bowser displays a surprising amount of competence from the get-go. Additionally, this is generally averted in the main series.

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Bowser}} of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is frequently portrayed this way, especially in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. In particular, ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' gives him a BrainsEvilBrawnGood dynamic with Fawful, where the latter sets up a GambitRoulette and utilizes various gadgets and robots while Bowser simply punches his way through the Mushroom Kingdom to get his castle back. Averted in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', where Bowser displays a surprising amount of competence from the get-go.

** Knuckles isn't always the sharpest tool in the shed and almost always finds some way to get tricked by Eggman into fighting the Heroes. This has only gotten worse in recent years due to {{Flanderization.}}
*** Spin off series, SonicBoom just takes this and runs with it. Knuckles is far more of a {{CloudCuckooLander}} than ever, who sometimes spouts nonsensical things. His profile even notes that his first answer to everything to punch it.

* [[BigBad Bowser]] of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is frequently portrayed this way, especially in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. In particular, ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' gives him a BrainsEvilBrawnGood dynamic with Fawful, where the latter sets up a GambitRoulette and utilizes various gadgets and robots while Bowser simply punches his way through the Mushroom Kingdom to get his castle back. Averted in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', where Bowser displays a surprising amount of competence from the get-go.

* The Heavy Weapons Guy from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is a subversion; although speaking simple English, he's [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue a lot more eloquent in Russian]] and even has a [=PhD=] in Russian literature (if you take his appearance in ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'' as canon). The Soldier, on the other hand, spent years fighting World War II ''after'' the war had actually ended, [[CaptainObvious repeats everything the announcer says]], and has trouble remembering the password of '1111'. And he gets Sun Tzu confused with Noah.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' has the Water Street Boys gang, which is basically a ''gang-wide'' case of this, complete with leader Winston Chu's right-hand man Conroy Wu (both described as possible steroid abusers) making his boss look ''worse'' for having him[[note]]he's a walking, talking symbol of Winston's inability to attract subordinates with potential, cultivate such subordinates or even attract refined subordinates in the first place[[note]], and both men plus their gang are collectively described[[note]]by the previous mole Charlie Ho[[/note]] as unable to achieve their goals due to lack of sophistication, respectability[[note]]with which to move into white-collar crime[[/note]] and just about anything ''except'' fierce loyalty to one another and brute force violence. Then [[GeniusBruiser Wei Shen]] comes along...

** Sabin is actually played as a tech-savvy, fairly intelligent character otherwise. He's got the book smarts, but he's culturally oblivious.
** Umaro is probably a better example, using HulkSpeak on the rare occasions when he speaks at all. His main solution when he sees something he doesn't like is to repeatedly bash away at it until he destroys it. This can be the enemies he beats with his giant club, or the walls in Kefka's Tower that he smashes down to clear a path for his friends. [[FridgeBrilliance Which, in its own way, is almost clever]].

* [[NubileSavage Ayla]] from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', a rare [[DistaffCounterpart female example of this trope]].

** Neither are perfect examples. Cirno isn't that strong compared to the rest of the cast, and she's mentally on par with the average fairy. For the oni, Suika is fairly intelligent, as seen in her story path of ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', Kasen definitely isn't dumb and her status as muscle is dubious, and we just haven't seen much of Yuugi. A better example would be Utsuho, who is extremely powerful, being essentially a living sun, and not all that much smarter than an actual crow.

* Played with by Dr. Mundo from ''LeagueOfLegends''. On the one hand, he's a genious chemist capable of enhancing his own body to many times its physical limit and granting himself a massive HealingFactor. On the other han, he forgets his own name if he doesn't constantly [[HulkSpeak say it to himself]].

* Crag Hack of ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' may be a barbarian, but as his fellow barbarian Yog notes, most barbarians aren't ''quite'' so dumb as Crag Hack -- this is a man who, despite ''decades'' of experience as a mercenary across (''at least'') two continents, not all of in combat, ''still'' hasn't picked up that 'Mister' is a title, not a name.

** In-Game, [[MeatShield bad Heavies]] and, most of the time, W+M1 Pyros also qualify.

* Big the Cat from the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series.
** Knuckles is also portrayed as a bit slow - considering all the times he's been tricked by Eggman it's not a surprise.
** Storm the Albatross from ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' is a straight example, however.

* In ''VideoGame/DingeonsAndDragonsOnline'', in one of the challenges resides a boss named Ugg the Assertive, having the lovely [[BossSubtitles Boss Subtitle]] <Confused Meatshield>.